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Smashing a Hard Disk up with a Hammer

Learn how to smash up a hard drive with this informative video, sponsored by andrewtatham.com  
 
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gab1971 (1 month ago) Show Hide
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looks like the original imac G3 harddrive
cybersynaptics (2 months ago) Show Hide
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tap tap tap...hit it with your purse...

get a real hammer, like a 38 oz framing hammer or a Binford 2000.
duodenit (4 months ago) Show Hide
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It's totally ineffective in destroying data. Hammer can not reach a Curie point. Data may be revealed from reconstructed disk plates with simple methods.
tehballzors (4 months ago) Show Hide
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The strikes on a angle seem to do more damage.
BlacKSacrificE (4 months ago) Show Hide
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brb, fbi *grabs hammer*
dynamo9 (4 months ago) Show Hide
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This would be the coolest screensaver movie, just change the words in the corner to "Optimizing.. Fragmenting Drives"
LiamRiordan (4 months ago) Show Hide
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Can I recommend a sledgehammer?

Also, the hard drive stood up surprisingly well at first... then failed spectacularly...
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AlmondMan (4 months ago) Show Hide
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ever heard of data protection? If you're going to dump the harddrive as a company or developer, then you want that data destroyed. formatting does not destroy any data, only complete physical destruction of the harddrive
Petablast (4 months ago) Show Hide
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You do this to broken drives to destroy the platters so that they cannot be read by a data recovery company.

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